Message388595
Currently return tuple (i, j, n), means that a[i:i+n] == b[j:j+n], where both matching blocks are the same length.
https://docs.python.org/3/library/difflib.html#difflib.SequenceMatcher.get_matching_blocks
This would not be the case if a has an ignored space and b does not. Changing the current definition would break existing code and would require quadruples to return two different lengths. This would require either a new parameter for the function to select the behavior or a new function with a new name.
Either option would require justification by actual use cases. I cannot see what they might be. An way to have junk chars completely ignored is to strip them from both strings before calling SequenceMatcher. |
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2021-03-13 07:27:23 | terry.reedy | set | recipients:
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